Dubai is set to experience the finest in casual dining as British chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay plans to open his second restaurant concept at the Atlantis, The Palm this fall.
Ramsay first entered the emirate’s gastronomic

Bakeries in Bahrain are being urged to reduce the salt content of their bread.
Health authorities are planning to step up efforts to cut out sodium from recipes, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

Tunisia will raise subsidised petrol prices by 6.3 percent in the coming days and also decrease subsidies for bread, sugar and other basic materials to trim its worsening budget deficit, the government said.
Subsidies are a sensit

Egypt's supplies minister said on Saturday a smart-card system for bread distribution rolled out in one Egyptian city had reduced wheat consumption by 30 percent, easing the strain of subsidies on the government's budget and foreign rese

Iraq has agreed to consider importing wheat from France, an Iraqi official and French exporters said, a potential breakthrough for the European Union's top wheat exporter in prized Middle Eastern import markets.
Iraq is one of

Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
Forty-four percent of salt c

Egypt, once the breadbasket of the ancient Roman empire and now the world's biggest wheat importer, is paying a hefty price to keep its citizens fed with cheap loaves and other foodstuffs, said experts.
The $5.5 billion which it spends

Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, faces a higher bill for bread subsidies in the next year but has adequate financial resources and stocks to avoid any rerun of the violent protests of 2008.
Egypt raced to redo orders after drough

Abdel Nabi Salim's main job in life is queuing for bread. The greying 65-year-old retired administrator stands under Egypt's glaring noon sun, waiting in a queue that snakes out to the street to buy 20 loaves of steaming subsidised pocket bread fr